Riiiight?!

Probably made him more dangerous lol.

He nerfs himself by using weapons like Doomslayer

Only less dangerous against one foe. All others? Not so much.

@@redrudy07 Yeah, the man was trained in every form of martial art since he was, what five? Plus all the combat experience he accumulated in the future, fighting literal armies. Hell the sword is basically non lethal to any but Aku. Using normal weapons makes him probably most lethal thing on the planet including Aku.

He always tends to rip shit up especially hard when he manages to get some actual samurai armor. It’s how you know he’s not fucking around

The armour is to hold him back

@@dreadlord8628 he wears the armor for his enemies’ safety

@@raymondfisheriii791 true

@cartoonistlouis773 I’m not gonna lie, ever since I saw Jack in full armor with a fucking pistol on him, rolling up on a motorcycle with a mini gun, I have been trying to slowly but surely fit out my D&D Samurai character with a gun and a motorcycle

In fairness, Jack beat him the first time they fought. If it weren't for the time portal Jack would have ended it there.

yup

"The more trials Jack will go through, the more powerful he becomes!' A true Doom moment

​@@awesomemccoolname7111yeah jack was already max level from the start, he just unlocked prestige levels at this point

I think that Aku is aware and it's shown that he gets angry at the failed atempts. It's just easy to let yourself forget about the doom that is slowly crawling to you when you're a God - perhaps at some point enough pondering will spawn the optimal aproach to obliterate the enemy, he may think to himself.

Keanu Reeves as Samurai Jack.

​@@keroro407 hmm. I think it should be someone of Japanese descent.

​@@rahul.murali nah I think he might have the right idea, in terms of general appearance, Keanu would probably make a fantastic Jack if he dyed his hair, the main selling point would be if he could SOUND like him.

Aku: I rule the entire galaxy! Jack: *Looks around* Aku: What? Jack: Just looking for someone who asked!

​@rahul.murali To be fair, while it isn't Japanese, Keanu is of Asian Descent. His Grandmother is Chinese-Hawaiian.

And that is why you use More Dakka, there is no kill like Overkill!

@@AKUJIVALDO instructions unclear, the cockroaches are both glowing and demanding rent from me after I nuked my kitchen.

@@crazyabe4571 your kitchen still standing and cockroaches still alive? Clearly you didn't use enough of DAKKA!

id just let it live with me after the 5th time and feed it in exchange for pest control

Hey there was episode in ALF that was on exactly this problem.

​@@goti4no820did the game let you play as Armored up Jack?

^

​@@goti4no820no freakin way. I've put it off after picking it up on a sale. Starting it tonight!

@@goti4no820 does the game retcon the ending of the series or something?

​@@valentino5835Yes it changes the shows ending. He doesn't know what he's saying lol.

To be fair, the first four seasons take place over maybe a couple years? During which time he has his trusty sword on hand which is the only thing that can kill Aku ANYWAY, so there's no need to really train himself in the use of much modern weaponry. Then there's a time skip of I think 50 years between 4 and 5, so he's had a lot of time to familiarize himself with modern tech. Hell, he's probably MORE adept at modern weaponry now (assuming he spent the entire time training) since there's no way he was 50 years old when he originally confronted Aku.

@@weezact7 He's a quick learner anyhow, we see that in his flashbacks, when he trains to use different cultures' weapons. Plus in the 50 years that passed, while he stopped hunting Aku because he felt it was hopeless, Aku's minions didn't stop hunting him, and he did keep helping people, presumably, whenever he could. I just prefer him using everything he can find to his advantage like this. Yes Aku would only be defeatable by the sword - every other enemy could be defeated in any number of ways.

@@weezact7also the first four seasons were meant for children. The 5th season was meant for adults.

Though it went quick I loved having the time skip from the original series and this cause showed his influence on the world

@@Ham24brand but samurai jack tackled a lot of mature stuff even before the season five like slavery and much more

literally. he cant even lose time

​@@icantthinkofausername9422 Jack was like an evil spirit hunting aku.

​@@aleksandaraleksandrov7111jojo?

@gavinwebber And the only way to get everything he lost back was through Aku.

Jackx payne

The Daughters ambushed Jack while he was having a mental breakdown due to his guilt over failing to return to the past. Once Jack confronted his inner demons and was able to focus he destroyed them effortlessly.

@@ltramon7463 all true. But in the series he rarely killed a living being. Fought many, but not killed until now I believe

@@captin-crane3324 Then all those robots he killed didn't count then? All those bounty hunters? They might have been robots but they were independently thinking beings made of metal instead of flesh. What about those warriors that Demongo trapped? Jack most certainly killed them. They just didn't stay dead and just returned to Demongo. Samurai Jack had lots of violence and death on screen. They were able to get away with it because they used bloodless violence by having robots.

@@ltramon7463 Ahhh the age old question of “what is life?” Reminds of “does this unit have a soul?”

​@@captin-crane3324I'm pretty sure I remember him killing creatures

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is considered by some to be the true canon ending to the series. Even got the creators approval.

I actually liked the ending, it was bittersweet, made sense, and served as closure for Jack. No more ties to that part of his life from that point on. He won't forget, but he can move on.

​​​@@domacleodthe ending fit with the theme, Return to the past jack

@@domacleod it didn't make sense though. Her disappearing because the changing of the future would also undo Jack coming back in time

@@HexManiac-nf1yg That's going into paradox theory, and paradox theory makes time travel impossible. For example, him going back in time to kill Aku means that Aku's future doesn't exist, and thus Jack had nothing to fight when he was first transported into the future, and nowhere to come back from. I'd suggest not going into time paradox stuff when it comes to fantasy / scifi, it breaks the premise 9/10 times. The only non-paradox time travel I've seen depicted is the one in Harry Potter, where he goes back in time to throw a stone at himself. There isn't any change in the timeline because Harry was always hit by a mysterious stone at that point. With Jack, if time travel in that universe didn't allow paradoxes, Aku would have won by default - Samurai Jack gets sent forward in time, but then gets back to his time and defeats Aku, meaning the future he was sent to doesn't exist, which means Aku actually obliterated Jack, so there's no one to come back and kill him. On to the actual story bits, it made sense if you think about it from a pure story perspective - she was the product of a future that never came to pass. Jack was a product of his own time - we even see his childhood play out, he has strong ties to that old world, and the only thing that he found in the future that he didn't already have, is love - which he then promptly lost. For all we know, he also lost most if not all memories of the future he went to, and the only reason he smiles at the end is because while his memories are gone, his feelings are not. That's just my interpretation though. And a bit of a long one.

THEY DO AND IT ROCKS!

Jackie Chan levels of fight timing

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The animators must have been listening to this while making the scene.

@@matijasostojic4288 Lol maybe!

Well he does have that multi year training montage at the beginning of the show.

@@schoolruler2 which i sorta forgot since he always use his sword 90% of the time along with his wits. only time i remember he use the spiked geta sandle outside of his sword to fight.

The minigun: the most honorable of Samurai weapons!

@@IsaiahRichards692 The samurai will use any and all forms of murder if it would kill lmao, honor is found in victory afterall

@@anadaere6861 Behold; the traditional Japanese sawed-off!

To quote another famous jack: "Its time for Jack the ripper to let'er rip!"

"Besides, these aren't my weapons"

​@@talesoftime5795"What I'm saying, is that Jack is back."

NANOMACHINES, SON

@@FractalNinja Wait a minute...a super campy villain whose main gimmick is hyper regeneration that can only be negated by a very specific McGuffin katana. Oh my god, Aku is just demon Armstrong and Jack is a non-cyborg Raiden.

And considering that Jack is a form of John...

Jack wick

​@@notturner8528His ancestor

They could do a live action with keanu

@@simplesmile6984 I’d think I’d prefer someone who is Japanese who looks like keanu reeves. To keep it lore friendly as possible

So true lol

Yes i was shocked in that first battle too

Somewhat Spoiler-ish if you haven't seen the last season (from Adult Swim). Several years have passed from the end of Season 4 and the start of Season 5 (I don't recall the exact but it was like 20-50 years) though it was revealed that Aku's magic to send Jack through time in the first place prevented him from aging which is why he doesn't look older (outside of longer hair/beard). In that time, Jack had lost his magic sword in a previous battle with Aku and when we see him at the start of Season 5, it shows how Jack has had to become much more proficient with other weapons outside of his sword, including having to use guns and a motorcycle in order to keep up with the increasingly more complex robots Aku had been sending after him. Even more spoilers ahead so be warned: Jack was still under the notion of not wanting to take a human life. Robots and monsters, he had no issue with. But he would never take a human life. That was until he faced the Daughters of Aku, humans that were born from Aku through some sort of ritual. During their fight, Jack assumed they were just more robots or monsters sent by Aku until he slit the throat of one of them and was horrified to see he had killed a human after their mask crumbled away. Heavily wounded himself in the process, Jack fled while gripping with the reality he had finally taken a human life. There was more darker tones in the final season, even where Jack was talking/arguing with his "inner self" and contemplating killing himself to end his suffering of never aging from Aku's magic. Eventually he realized that as much as he was appalled by taking a human life, it was going to have to be a necessary action if he was ever going to finally defeat Aku which lead him to being able to force himself to kill off all but one of the remaining Daughters of Aku.

​@@bloodwolfgaming9269Biggest and final spoiler: Ashi survives Akus death. It's in the final cutscene of the game Battle through time wich is canon.

​@@bloodwolfgaming9269off topic but i think Jack can wield thors hammer

Well, happy-ish

not really, ashi doesnt exist. The world is safe but he will never be happy

@@noname558 Jack's world has magic and intact time portals. He can pick up his fiance, step through the portal again and see if that breaks the continuity backlash. Or if the only way forward is backward, take Ashi to S1 and become a mechanic slash sandal maker that has a brief meeting with his younger self. That mechanic had a wife- and kids. Then it's a matter of Jack's whole lineage going through the portal every so many generations to prevent existential crisis. Time travel is awful, I'd rather not.

um i still have my imagination, i can think up a thousand stories that parallel this, its actually one of humanities only qualities we share, our stories.

Spot on!

You missed out hard, like really hard.

Damn. I still remember being a 6 year old watching this on toonami 🔥 was a ninja for like 3 years cause of him. His white outfit was 🔥

Must be said that season 5 is not as kidfriendly in terms of violance as the rest of the show. Btw, you can most likely watch it right here on youtube if you like.

I’m gonna guess they were going for it being behind the beetle horn like the rest of Jack. First illustrations had beardless so they could differentiate and add it in with a flowing effect to stand out. But it’s such a quick scene that it was overlooked and passed off.

Honestly didn't even need the full suit, just like bits, namely the arms, going full from pauldron to gauntlet on both sides, along with maybe the pistol plus holster, little added bits to show while he is Samurai Jack, he has also grown from what he experienced. Still a good series tho, your main point stands

yeah his regular outfit is like every day casual clothes but that armor is proper battlefield attire.

@@jaredflynn3750 which is weird considering how many times he fights

I think it can be chalked up to this. They got cocky. They, quote unquote, “won” the first fight against jack, having fixed him to run at only the cost of one of theirs. This is what they trained for their whole lives and this was proof that they were meant to win. And that led to them making their mistakes that led to (most of) their deaths

Okay but. Now I kinda wanna see that

Well, the final season was on Adult Swim so I wouldn't really call it much of a "kids show" at that point and it really let lose on the violence and darker themes without the "it's a kids show" restriction holding it back.